Is it possible to use VectorDrawable in Buttons an

Question

When I use VectorDrawable assets in a textview or imageview I get a runtime crash when using "android:DrawableRight" / "android:DrawableEnd" / "android:DrawableStart" / "android:DrawableLeft".

The app will compile fine without any warnings.

I am using

• Gradle 1.5
• Support Library 23.2 ('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.0')

What I have found though is that I can programmatically assign SVG's in Java without crashes like this.

TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
tv.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(null,null, getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_accessible_white_36px),null);

(I suspect this is a support library bug for 23.2.)

But is it possible to use drawableRight etc for SVG assets ?

Here is my layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="au.com.angryitguy.testsvg.MainActivity">


<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_accessible_white_36px"
    android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:textSize="22sp"
    android:text="Hello World!"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Here is my Activity

package au.com.angryitguy.testsvg;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        }
    }

Here is the unmodified VectorDrawable asset from Google's material design site.

<vector android:height="24dp" android:viewportHeight="24.0"
    android:viewportWidth="24.0" android:width="24dp" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <path android:fillColor="#FFFFFF" android:pathData="M12,4m-2,0a2,2 0,1 1,4 0a2,2 0,1 1,-4 0"/>
    <path android:fillColor="#FFFFFF" android:pathData="M19,13v-2c-1.54,0.02 -3.09,-0.75 -4.07,-1.83l-1.29,-1.43c-0.17,-0.19 -0.38,-0.34 -0.61,-0.45 -0.01,0 -0.01,-0.01 -0.02,-0.01L13,7.28c-0.35,-0.2 -0.75,-0.3 -1.19,-0.26C10.76,7.11 10,8.04 10,9.09L10,15c0,1.1 0.9,2 2,2h5v5h2v-5.5c0,-1.1 -0.9,-2 -2,-2h-3v-3.45c1.29,1.07 3.25,1.94 5,1.95zM12.83,18c-0.41,1.16 -1.52,2 -2.83,2 -1.66,0 -3,-1.34 -3,-3 0,-1.31 0.84,-2.41 2,-2.83L9,12.1c-2.28,0.46 -4,2.48 -4,4.9 0,2.76 2.24,5 5,5 2.42,0 4.44,-1.72 4.9,-4h-2.07z"/>
</vector>

Here is my app build.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "au.com.angryitguy.testsvg"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        // Stops the Gradle plugin’s automatic rasterization of vectors
        generatedDensities = []
    }
    // Flag to tell aapt to keep the attribute ids around
    aaptOptions {
        additionalParameters "--no-version-vectors"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.0'
}

Here is the crash. (Note the inflate errors that reference the textview.)

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{
    au.com.angryitguy.testsvg/au.com.angryitguy.testsvg.MainActivity}: 
    android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #13: 
    Error inflating class TextView

at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2059)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
...

Caused by: android.view.InflateException: 
    Binary XML file line #13: Error inflating class TextView
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:704)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:267)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:129)
at au.com.angryitguy.testsvg.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:14)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
...

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: 
    File res/drawable/ic_accessible_white_36px.xml from drawable resource ID #0x7f02004b
at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1918)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:622)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.<init>(AppCompatTextView.java:60)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.<init>(AppCompatTextView.java:56)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater.createView(AppCompatViewInflater.java:103)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.createView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:963)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.onCreateView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:1022)
at android.support.v4.view.LayoutInflaterCompatHC$FactoryWrapperHC.onCreateView(LayoutInflaterCompatHC.java:44)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:675)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:267) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:129) 
at au.com.angryitguy.testsvg.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:14) 
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008) 
...

Caused by: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException:
    Binary XML file line #1: invalid drawable tag vector
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:877)
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:818)
at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1915)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601) 
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:622) 
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.<init>(AppCompatTextView.java:60) 
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.<init>(AppCompatTextView.java:56) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater.createView(AppCompatViewInflater.java:103) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.createView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:963) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.onCreateView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:1022) 
at android.support.v4.view.LayoutInflaterCompatHC$FactoryWrapperHC.onCreateView(LayoutInflaterCompatHC.java:44) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:675) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) 
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:267) 
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:129) 
at au.com.angryitguy.testsvg.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:14) 
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008) 
...

Answer 1

The best way I found:

Drawable leftDrawable = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_search);
search.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(leftDrawable, null, null, null);

Answer 2

I am so late to answer this question as I stucked late with this problem. I had the same issue with svg/vector drawables with TextView. Instead of making your own custom drawable I am able to fix my problem with 2 lines of code as below:

Drawable drawableTop = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(view.getContext(), iconId);
view.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(null, drawableTop, null, null);

Hope it will help you out.

Answer 3

For backward compatibility use:

TextViewCompat.setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(textView, left, top, right, bottom)

Answer 4

To complement some of the answers here: you can get VectorDrawable to work as drawableLeft (etc.) but it depends on the Support Library version and it comes with a price.

In which cases does it work? I've made this diagram to help (valid for Support Library 23.4.0 to - at least - 25.1.0).

Answer 5

Based on Behzad Bahmanyar's answer, I noticed that I could not use android's normal attributes for normal png files:

android:drawableTop
android:drawableBottom
etc

because it would be replaced with null in

Drawable drawableTop = null;
...
setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(drawableStart, drawableTop, drawableEnd, drawableBottom);

if the app:drawableTopCompat was not set, but android:drawableTop was (for eg).

Here is the full solution:

public class CustomTextView extends AppCompatTextView {
    private static final int NOT_SET = -1;
    private static final int LEFT = 0;
    private static final int START = 0;
    private static final int TOP = 1;
    private static final int RIGHT = 2;
    private static final int END = 2;
    private static final int BOTTOM = 3;

    public CustomTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        initAttrs(context, attrs);
    }

    public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        initAttrs(context, attrs);
    }

    void initAttrs(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        if (attrs == null) {
            return;
        }
        Drawable[] drawablesArr = getCompoundDrawables();

        TypedArray attributeArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.CustomTextView);
        Drawable drawableStart = null;
        Drawable drawableEnd = null;
        Drawable drawableBottom = null;
        Drawable drawableTop = null;
        Drawable drawableLeft = null;
        Drawable drawableRight = null;

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
            drawableStart = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableStartCompat);
            drawableEnd = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableEndCompat);
            drawableBottom = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableBottomCompat);
            drawableTop = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableTopCompat);
            drawableLeft = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableLeftCompat);
            drawableRight = attributeArray.getDrawable(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableRightCompat);
        } else {
            final int drawableStartId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableStartCompat, NOT_SET);
            final int drawableEndId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableEndCompat, NOT_SET);
            final int drawableBottomId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableBottomCompat, NOT_SET);
            final int drawableTopId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableTopCompat, NOT_SET);
            final int drawableLeftId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableLeftCompat, NOT_SET);
            final int drawableRightId = attributeArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomTextView_drawableRightCompat, NOT_SET);

            if (drawableStartId != NOT_SET)
                drawableStart = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableStartId);
            if (drawableLeftId != NOT_SET)
                drawableLeft = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableLeftId);
            if (drawableEndId != NOT_SET)
                drawableEnd = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableEndId);
            if (drawableRightId != NOT_SET)
                drawableRight = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableRightId);
            if (drawableBottomId != NOT_SET)
                drawableBottom = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableBottomId);
            if (drawableTopId != NOT_SET)
                drawableTop = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableTopId);
        }

        drawableStart = (drawableStart != null ? drawableStart : drawablesArr[START]);
        drawableLeft = (drawableLeft != null ? drawableLeft : drawablesArr[LEFT]);
        drawableStart = (drawableStart != null ? drawableStart : drawableLeft);

        drawableEnd = (drawableEnd != null ? drawableEnd : drawablesArr[END]);
        drawableRight = (drawableRight != null ? drawableRight : drawablesArr[RIGHT]);
        drawableEnd = (drawableEnd != null ? drawableEnd : drawableRight);

        drawableBottom = (drawableBottom != null ? drawableBottom : drawablesArr[BOTTOM]);
        drawableTop = (drawableTop != null ? drawableTop : drawablesArr[TOP]);

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
            setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(drawableStart, drawableTop, drawableEnd, drawableBottom);
        } else {
            setCompoundDrawables(drawableStart, drawableTop, drawableEnd, drawableBottom);
        }

        attributeArray.recycle();
    }
}

Answer 6

None of the other answers worked, here's how I've added a VectorDrawable to a TextView, you should use VectorDrawableCompat.create() when dealing with VectorDrawables below Android L:

TextView titleTextView = (TextView) viewHolder.getView(android.R.id.text1);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
{
       Drawable leftDrawable = AppCompatResources
                            .getDrawable(context, R.drawable.ic_tickbox);
       titleTextView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(leftDrawable, null, null, null);
}
else
{
      //Safely create our VectorDrawable on pre-L android versions. 
       Drawable leftDrawable = VectorDrawableCompat
                            .create(context.getResources(), R.drawable.ic_tickbox, null);
       titleTextView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(leftDrawable, null, null, null);
}

Short, sweet, and to the point!